The 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses is fast approaching. The University of Oxford has begun preparations to mark this key event in European history, some of which are centred on the Taylor Institution’s collection of Lutheran pamphlets. This workshop focuses specifically on how women from all walks of life, and from across Europe and beyond, responded to the events of the Reformation. In particular, we are interested in exploring women’s cultural and written responses. We are delighted that Professor Ulrike Strasser (UC San Diego) will speak on gender and the Jesuit missions in the Marianas Islands as part of the workshop.

Latest episodes of the podcast Women's Responses to the Reformation

• Political wisdom and deep devotion: The introduction of the Reformation in Southern Lower Saxony by Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Calenberg-Gottingen
• 'Print therefore good Lord, and write these examples in my memory': The Forgotten History of Writing and Printing Lady Abergavenny's Prayers
• Danish Noblewomen's Use of Manuscript Prayer Books c. 1550-1600
• Textual Negotiation and Resistance of Female Religious Communities Facing Reformation
• Sin and Salvation: Churching as a disciplinary tool in Early Modern Denmark
• Brandenburg's Calvinist Turn and the Portrayal of Dynastic Women
• Recording women's responses to the Reformation: Henry Jessey as "relator" of Sarah Wight's religious prophecy in The Exceeding Riches of Grace (1647)
• The women behind the prophecies: A discussion of Ursula Jost and her printer Margarethe Prüss
• Of Martyrs and Makhanas: Jesuits and Gender in the Seventeenth-Century Marianas Mission